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Post by borderbabe on Oct 16, 2006 13:08:18 GMT
I was looking through a couple of seed and plant catalogues today and now can't wait for next season. Does anyone feel the same?? Just hope I can keep the enthusiasm up when its cold and wet.
Has anyone got plans to grow something they've tried before - I going to try squashes.
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 16, 2006 13:17:15 GMT
Trombochino, I bought the seeds from the organic stand at Kings Heath Park... and "Tigerella" Tomatoes. For my birthday last year, my daughter bought me some Kangaroo Paw seeds, which Ive been recently reminded of (Plocket) so Im going to give them a go! I also bought a pack of mixed ornamental gourds which look like fun. ;D and Mulchmad sent me some Gigantes beans as well, I almost forgot  |
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Post by Plocket on Oct 16, 2006 13:23:59 GMT
Heavens I haven't STARTED to think of 2007 yet!!! At the moment I don't plan to do too many seeds. We'll probably do some more container vegetables and I've been given lots of seeds through swaps etc. so hopefully that will keep me going.
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Oct 16, 2006 15:11:26 GMT
I've already got a shedload of seeds...I'm going to try the celosia cockscomb variety that nobody else in the world likes (except me and Captain Cabbage apparently)....some gomphocarpus 'Hairy Balls' (couldn't resist the name) and lots of other stuff...I'm also going to try and grow some melons in my GH, and sweetcorn in amongst the bedding....I have quite a small garden so had hoped to grow the sweetcorn in big tubs but everyone on the beeb board said it won't grow in containers  I might EVEN buy a clem...have resisted so far...... ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Plocket on Oct 16, 2006 15:18:03 GMT
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE Cheery, YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED!!! ;D
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Oct 16, 2006 15:26:56 GMT
;D
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Post by Plocket on Oct 16, 2006 15:43:13 GMT
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Post by beanie on Oct 17, 2006 9:06:05 GMT
i'm really organises this year ,usually when i get round to ordering seeds in the spring the one's i want are usually sold out so i decided to get in early and ordered them a month ago
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2006 10:14:33 GMT
I guess you know winter is on the way when you start thinking about plans for next year  ! I hope to sort out two difficult beds which have un-removable granite blocks beneath them  - a definite challenge, which is why I've been posting lots of questions! And we're getting a raised bed in the front (yippee) which will be planted with a Virginia creeper and lots of fuchsias, as well as bulbs and annuals for seasonal colour - really looking forward to that. But my real hope is that, in 2007, I'll have a better idea of what I'm doing in the garden - I still feel like a complete novice blundering around ... cheers ... |
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Post by bagpuss on Oct 17, 2006 11:39:36 GMT
I am going to endeavour to get some more year round interest into the garden as it is a bit sporadic in places. Providing there isn't another hosepipe ban next year, I will re-do my hanging baskets. I am also going to try and encourage more wildlife into the garden.
Veggie-wise, I would like to try potatoes in containers, and also do a vegetable hanging basket too!
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Post by 4pygmies on Oct 17, 2006 16:46:24 GMT
I'm going to try and be much more disciplined about what seeds I get for my garden. I sow so many for selling that my head gets woolly when I'm trying to decide what I want for me! I want more plants of the same type to plant in much bigger drifts this year in my flower garden. It needs a massive amount of digging over this Autumn and I usually get really stressed about it so it gets done in dribs and drabs and plants get shoved in wherever. I'm lucky to have the space I know and I really want to have a go at prairie planting. I love Piet Oudolf's gardens - I want huge clumps of Burnets and Calendula.......that's the plan anyway......
I'm also going to stop trying to grow summer cabbages and get the numbers right next year. I always have too much of some things, not enough of others. And NO aubergines next year. Too much work for not enough reward. And more sweetcorn.
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Post by Plocket on Oct 17, 2006 17:58:22 GMT
I really want to have a go at prairie planting. I love Piet Oudolf's gardens - I want huge clumps of Burnets and Calendula.......that's the plan anyway....... 4P if you ever come up my way I MUST show you around Trentham Gardens - he's been involved in the restoration of the Italian Gardens and they are fabulous! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2006 18:32:17 GMT
Like Bagpuss, I'm going to try and get more year round interest in my garden. I'm also going to screen off the end of the garden as the children's play area, dig out a small veggie patch, reshape and extend one of the borders and plant some clems over an arch (which I haven't got yet - there's another job). We're also contemplating a conservatory, which will mean digging out some plants (including my primrose star Plocket ) and lifting and relaying the £2000 patio we had put down last year  FA x |
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Post by Plocket on Oct 17, 2006 20:11:54 GMT
Hang on a mo Andy, and rewind a bit...... you are going to dig OUT your Primrose Star?  ? I thought you'd only recently got it in the ground!!! What are you going to do with it when you've dug it up??? I'm sure a conservatory is a lovely idea, but think of the CLEMATIS Andy!!!!!  Px |
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Post by 4pygmies on Oct 17, 2006 20:17:37 GMT
Plocket, that's a date! (I'll grab CPB for our 60th birthday jaunt!) I think I've seen articles about Trentham Gardens - his gardens are so wonderful to be in aren't they? We went to his Millennium Gardens at Pensthorpe Bird place in Norfolk in the late summer and I was engulfed by gloriously tall swaying swathes of flowers and grasses. Fantastic! It really was an explosion for the senses - sound, colour and scent. Lovely. The birds were good too!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2006 20:41:20 GMT
Plocket
Not sure what we're going to do with it to be honest. We planted it after we had the patio done and it's grown really well. Unfortunately, Mrs FA wants a conservatory so it's going to have to come out. I'll probably just bin it as I don't have anywhere else for it to go.
FA x
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Post by magrich on Oct 17, 2006 23:00:45 GMT
I want more ground cover in my front garden (hopefully it will then take care of itself) it is a silly triangle shape and I keep sticking things in without thinking it through properly. If I can move afew around and get ground cover I can forget weeding .
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Post by Plocket on Oct 18, 2006 7:18:30 GMT
Plocket I'll probably just bin it as I don't have anywhere else for it to go. FA x [glow=pink,7,300] GASP!!!![/glow] |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2006 18:59:31 GMT
Sorry Plocket. What I meant to say, obviously, was that I will have to move it but will endeavour to find a spot for it and if I can't I will try and find a home for it with my mum or one of the neighbours. Actually, the conservatory might not happen now. Our boiler flue is currently too close to where the conservatory will be and can't be extended (it's an old boiler) so it looks likely that we're going to need a whole new boiler if we want to have it done. I've just spoken to a plumber who has said that we're looking at the thick end of £3000 to have a new boiler and to plumb in a radiator in the conservatory. We hadn't bargained on that so I don't know if the budget will allow. We wanted to get the drive done as well but have been quoted £5000 to have it block paved (it's quite a long drive - room for 5 cars !). All of a sudden, the cost is spiralling out of control ! FA x |
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Post by Dr Bill on Oct 19, 2006 9:20:00 GMT
. All of a sudden, the cost is spiralling out of control Tell me about it |
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 19, 2006 9:43:49 GMT
Sorry Plocket. What I meant to say, obviously, was that I will have to move it but will endeavour to find a spot for it and if I can't I will try and find a home for it with my mum or one of the neighbours. Actually, the conservatory might not happen now. Our boiler flue is currently too close to where the conservatory will be and can't be extended (it's an old boiler) so it looks likely that we're going to need a whole new boiler if we want to have it done. I've just spoken to a plumber who has said that we're looking at the thick end of £3000 to have a new boiler and to plumb in a radiator in the conservatory. We hadn't bargained on that so I don't know if the budget will allow. We wanted to get the drive done as well but have been quoted £5000 to have it block paved (it's quite a long drive - room for 5 cars !). All of a sudden, the cost is spiralling out of control ! FA x FA have a look at Wickes, a friend of mine just bought a CH boiler for £600 and a radiator for about £80.......dont know where your plumber gets his price list from.............  |
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! I hope to sort out two difficult beds which have un-removable granite blocks beneath them 
- a definite challenge, which is why I've been posting lots of questions! And we're getting a raised bed in the front (yippee) which will be planted with a Virginia creeper and lots of fuchsias, as well as bulbs and annuals for seasonal colour - really looking forward to that. But my real hope is that, in 2007, I'll have a better idea of what I'm doing in the garden - I still feel like a complete novice blundering around ... cheers ...
? I thought you'd only recently got it in the ground!!! What are you going to do with it when you've dug it up??? I'm sure a conservatory is a lovely idea, but think of the CLEMATIS Andy!!!!!
Px
